What the Bible says about light and seed

The True Light "In him, (the Lord Jesus) was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world,…the world didn’t recognize him." John 1:4,9.

The Good Seed and the Weeds “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seeds in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.”Matthew 13:24,25.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Civil War and the Coming New World Order

Reposted from omegaletter.comWitnessing Tools
Monday, November 28, 2016Pete Garcia This is quite a difficult and sensitive topic being discussed
here today. But I feel that it is warranted, given what we are seeing
play out before us. I don’t have any particular scriptural basis for it,
other than it being more of an observation of the times. If anything, I
would liken it to the condition Jesus laid out for His disciples when
asked what the signs of the end would be when He said…

Nation
(ethnos) would rise against nation (ethnos), kingdom (political power)
against kingdom (political power) …and the love of many will wax
cold… (Matt. 24:7, 12)There is a storm brewing in our land, and has been for some time.
Those dark, foreboding clouds have always been on the horizon, but now
they are overhead and our grumbling like a Kansas thunderstorm laden
with the potential for torrential rains, lightening, and tornados. While
history is not everyone’s favorite subject, it should be something we
reconcile frequently. Studying history helps illuminate the challenges
and similarities that our ancestors faced and may help us recognize the
challenges we face in our own day and of days yet to come. The reason
for this is because although the times change and the technology
changes--the human condition never does. We tend to make the same
mistakes over and over because we are a fallen race riddled with sin…and
given enough time, history tends to repeat itself without fail.

On November the 9th, 2016, quite possibly the largest political
earthquake ever felt in the United States occurred in the wee hours of
the morning with Republican Donald Trump’s victory over Democrat Hillary
Clinton. So stunning was the loss for Clinton and the Democrats that
the media, the glitterati, the newspapers, print journals, pundits, and
comedians all had assumed that her victory was so certain, that the
election itself was just a formality. But since that day, the stammering
and speechlessness has turned increasingly vitriolic and toxic as the
reality that Donald Trump really will be the next President of the
United States.

Since then, we’ve been witness to an increasing number of
“spontaneous” anti-Trump demonstrations along with a rash of growing
anti-police violence. These protests are “spontaneous” in the same sense
that Benghazi was a result of an ‘anti-Islamic’ video on YouTube. In
all actuality, these protests are part of a greater concerted effort by
uber-leftist/globalist groups like George Soros Incorporated and
MoveOn.org, who are attempting to upend the system in the wake of their
stunning political defeat. So if they can’t win politically despite the
rampant fraud and voter machine rigging, they will attempt it by
funding and fomenting violence.

The attempt now by the media to link the ‘rise in white power groups’
to Trump’s victory, is another attempt to get him to backpedal. Their
rise (neo Nazi’s and the like) are not a result of Trump’s election, but
a reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement that have sprung up across the nation and have hijacked the narrative on race.

Along those same sentiments is a growing call for secession from the Union from more traditionally liberal states like California and Oregon
as a more formal protest against a Trump presidency. In the past,
conservative states like Texas have threatened secession due to
President Obama’s federal overreach but it seemed more bark than bite.
At the very least, things could get to the point where California itself
divides between the liberal south and central, and the more
conservative north. But one thing to watch here is the momentum of the
movement at the state level and to what degree Governor Jerry ‘Moonbeam’
Brown supports it as an act of defiance over the ‘sanctuary city’
status they will maintain despite federal threats of financial
penalties.

But in watching the ‘useful-idiot’ movement (and media) attempting to
justify their actions of blocking traffic, destroying private property,
killing cops, threatening to kill cops, and provoking random violence,
it reminded me of the events leading up to the American Civil War. Let
us recap:

1820: The Missouri Compromise-Allowed
Missouri to be a slave state, but added Maine as a free state to balance
out Congress. Also divided the slave territories along the 36 by 30
parallel.1831: Nat Turner’s Rebellion-slave uprising
killing 60 whites. Quelled after two days, 55 slaves, including Nat
Turner, were executed, along with 200 more who were lynched.1846-1850: Wilmot Proviso would have (it
failed) outlawed slavery from expanding into the newly acquired
territories at the end of the Mexican-American war, which gained the US
much of the southwest including California.1850: The Compromise of 1850-New western
territories in the would be slave states, but compelled the northerners
to abide by the Fugitive Slave Act, which required them to return
fugitive slaves back to the South.1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
popular book on slavery conditions in the south, considered by the north
shocking and horrifying, but disparaging to Southerners who viewed this
as gross mischaracterization.1854-1861: ‘Bleeding Kansas’ The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise, by allowing these states
to determine whether or not to be free or slave. The both went free
after a bloody, five year struggle.1857: The Dred Scott Case-The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, further complicating the North’s opposition to slavery.1859: John Brown’s Raid-White Southerners
and freed black slaves raided ammunition arsenal and began arming other
groups to rise up. Was captured and executed becoming a martyr to the
Abolitionist movement.1860: Election of Abraham Lincoln-The
election of the Republican A. Lincoln was overwhelming, considering he
was not even on the ballot in many southern states. His election was
followed by the secession of South Carolina some 30 days after. Six more
states would secede by the spring of 1861.1861: Battle of Ft. Sumter-Following S.
Carolina’s secession, Ft. Sumter suddenly found itself on foreign land.
Lincoln decided to send supplies and was met with a Southern blockade.
This sparked the start of the actual Civil War.(Reference: http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/triggerevents.html)

AssessmentAs you can see, the Civil War didn’t start because Republican Abraham
Lincoln was elected as President. Lincoln’s election was simply the
straw that broke the camel’s back. There were decades of unchecked
grievances and emotions leading up to the election of 1860. Former
President Thomas Jefferson made this forewarning upon hearing of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 on slavery. In it he…

“Considered it at once as the (death)
knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment. But this is a
reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding
with a marked principle, oral and political, once conceived and held up
to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated; and every new
irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.”Thomas Jefferson saw slavery as an issue that would not simply go
away by appeasement and compromise. It would continue to fester in the
hearts and minds of Americans (both for and against), until it resolved
itself in the bloodiest war ever waged by Americans. In regards to this
concept of unchecked grievances, I would like to draw a parallel to the
issues of our day. The battle over the hearts and minds of Americans has
been over a century in the making, and is so ingrained into our culture
that we no more think about our eroding liberties than a frog thinks
about the water he is in warming up.

There would be no need to work for liberty were liberties not being
lost. Most Americans are unaware of a decline in individual liberty, and
the reason is obvious: the decline rarely takes the form of sudden
personal deprivations but, instead, takes the form of unnoticed erosion,
and thus we come, as do the Russians, to regard whatever state we are
in as a normal condition.” Leonard E. Reed, (1965)

The outrage by normal Americans over the past eight years has
resulted in the loss of some 900 Democrat seats of power, the rise of
the Tea Party movement, and culminated with the election of Donald Trump
primarily because of Obama’s overreach. He didn’t do anything different
than any other president before him, which was to create more
bureaucracy, more overreach, and add to our burgeoning national deficit.
Obama simply got too greedy, too fast. His federal abuse was too
obvious and it awoken the silent majority much in the same way that the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor awoke a largely isolationist-minded
American public in the 1940s.

Understand that there has already been a soft coup in this nation
going back a hundred years or more. This coup began with the varying
ideological theories from people like: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels,
Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Margaret Sanger,
John Dewey, and many others who at their foundation, espouse a rabid
anti-Christian, anti-American, and anti-Constitutionalist ideas.
Although the aforementioned specialize in different areas (economics,
science, eugenics, psychology, and education), they all feed off of each
other and use each other as stepping stones to validate their own
agendas.

Their goal, largely accomplished today, was to spread this infectious
ideology first through European seminaries, universities, and then on
to the rest of the world via public education and governance. This then
would be reinforced through the relentless “consensus-mantra” beatings
by media and pop culture on the average citizenry. Now those most
indoctrinated by socialism (in its varying forms) are firmly embedded in
most of the western governments. Their goal is a one-world system. But
first they need to ‘divide and conquer’ which is why we see the parties
(even within themselves) so divided over fiscal, social, and political
issues we face today.

Although the swing left was greatly exacerbated during the Clinton
and Obama administrations, Hillary’s third term was meant to be the
icing on the cake. It was meant to usher in an avalanche of demographic
change via massive, unchecked immigration that would change the
electoral make up of this country forever, so that no Republican could
ever win again. This is why this Trump win is such a stinging defeat.
They (media, politicians, “experts”) were so sure it would happen that
Clinton never even thought to write her concession speech. Such was the
power of the media to distort the facts on the ground. Even now, you can
see now how the media is already trying to shape what President Trump’s
agenda should be. This is the same media that completely got the
election wrong. They keep trying to shape the argument that what real
American’s are angry about, is their talking points.

To set the record straight about the average American:We aren’t angry over “climate change.”We aren’t angry because men can’t use women’s restrooms.We aren’t angry because we hate immigrants.

We are angry because
the progressive-left has hijacked the Constitution and is trying to
redefine it into something it was never intended to be-- a license for
lawlessness leading to a global government.We are angry about
unchecked immigration, sanctuary cities, overwhelming national debt,
global trade deals that would crush the US economy, and an overburdened,
and under resourced military.We are angry at the lawlessness and corruption permeating every facet of our society.We are angry that the America we got the privilege to grow up in, will not exist for our children at the current rate.

ConclusionSlavery is a system of both commerce and thought, and has been around
as long as man has. It always seeks to put one class above the other.
One works while the other reaps the benefit of that work. In the past
centuries, the workers and reapers were determined by race and
ethnicity. But as the west came to abandon the actual practice of slave
holding, the concept remained. In the 20th-21st centuries, the class
division wasn’t so much about race as it was political and religious
ideology.

While slavery was the issue of the day back in the 1850’s and was
rightly rejected by the Republican Party, the issue of slavery still
holds sway over the world today. This new form of oppression in the west
is more akin to the proletariat versus bourgeoisie of the communist
revolutions that swept through places like Russia, China, Cuba, and
Vietnam in the 20th century. This new form of oppression is between the
haves and have nots, the elite and the ‘unwashed’ masses, between the
enlightened and the ‘deplorables’, and between the media and the
alternative watchdogs. The Democrat party never abandoned the idea of
slavery, they just redefined it.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” wasn’t based on truly helping
poor, minority communities, but enslaving them into systemic poverty and
guaranteeing party loyalty for decades to come. Even the leftist Snopes
‘fact checking website’ has a very difficult time walking back his
vehemently racist comments. But here is the greater proof, if the
Democrat party truly had the best interest of minorities in mind,
democratic strongholds like Detroit, Chicago, and Washington D.C. would
be beacons of peace and prosperity. But those cities, like so many
others, are markedly divided between the ‘go and no go’ zones of the
rich and affluent and the poor and desperate.

But to the left, even racism and slavery are only means to an end,
not the end itself. It is even somewhat disingenuous to claim on the
left want globalism, because there are many so called Republicans who
are also in the tank for a one-world system. Racism, sexism,
‘homophobia’, ‘islamophobia’, etc., are tools they use via Cultural Marxism
to create ‘identity politics’ as a means to divide and conquer a
nation. To this end, the left will never concede of their own volition
to constitutional governance because they’ve already spent the last 100
years corrupting the system and have come too far. For them, the
Constitution is only useful in how they can use it to destroy the entire
system. Put in another way, they (globalist-left and right) want us to
commit constitutional suicide. Since they will never yield, we are
really only left with one option if we are to preserve our way of life
(life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), and that is by making
them bend to our will, not the other way around.

We should also accept the reality that mainstream media has become
irrelevant. Their agenda, is not the American agenda. The Democrat party
is in massive decline and implosion and in the process, have lost
around 900 seats (governorships, congress, senate, etc.) since 2010. We
can make a rather sobering assessment that the Democrat party itself
will die, and out of the ashes will rise something between a mix of
outright communism and Sharia Law.

They want an international system of socialism because in their heart
of hearts, they truly believe that this is the only way in which man
can solve all of his problems. That is why they are intent on destroying
the very system that affords them the ability to even have thoughts of
destroying it. And just as the Civil War didn’t start in 1820 with the
Missouri Compromise, nor did it begin with Lincoln’s election, rather,
it was a long series of steps that led straight to the battlefields of
Antietam and Gettysburg, in which brother killed brother, and neighbor
killed neighbor. We would be smart to remember the old axiom that Mark
Twain once said…although history doesn’t repeat itself, it sure does rhyme.

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I am sure most of you have known at some time in your life a person who wanted or attempted to end their life or succeeded in doing so. Personally, I have known a number of such people. I, myself had such an episode as an adolescent.

More and more I am reading and hearing about people young, old, male, female, gender and age don´t matter that add their lives to this problem of epidemic proportion in our society. Whatever the cause, we can all do something however small to save lives.

No need to have a psych. degree or to be licensed. An understanding heart, a listening ear is sometimes all that it takes to help weaker, more sensitive people overcome the hopelessness that drives fellow human beings to discard the gift of human life.

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HE INVITES SUICIDE JUMPERS FOR A CUP OF TEA

Don Ritchie moved to a house outside Sydney, Australia, for the clifftop view. But soon he was stopping suicides by inviting potential jumpers inside for a cup of tea.

Don Ritchie has been awarded a medal for bravery and an Order of Australia (the nation’s second highest honor) for averting hundreds of would-be suicides by approaching people and offering them a cup of tea. ‘I used to sell kitchen scales and bacon cutters,’ he says. Now, ‘I’m trying to sell people life.’